david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) (03/01/91)
Guess what? The Minix ST demo disk just announced by Andy Tannenbaum in this newsgroup sports a _working_ mkfs. I have made my D partition into a Minix partition. Even though I don't have Minix, I can use MiNT 1.7 (the mintm.prg version), which supports Minix, and I have a partition which can use filenames like y.tab.c or hack.tar.Z!! WARNINGS: 1) KNOW what you're doing. I disconnected my main HD and tried it out on my old Megafile 30. Even then, I ended up having to reformat the whole thing (including the C partition) the first time around. Try using the command on a floppy first. 2) Read all of the cautions in the MiNT distribution on using Minix file systems. Happy hunting! -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////